Synology DiskStation DS118 1-bay NAS Review

1. Introduction2. Synology DiskStation DS1183. DSM OS4. Usability5. ATTO / CrystalDiskMark6. Backup / Restore7. Intel NASPT8. Real Life File Transfers9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

The Synology DiskStaion DS-118 supports drives up to 12TB so we tested the unit using a 12TB Seagate IronWolf Pro (7,200rpm, 256MB cache) drive.

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.3.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously.
Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

Synology quote Sequential performance figures for the DiskStation DS118 as 113MB/s for reads and 112MB/s for writes, figures we confirmed with the ATTO benchmark. The review unit produced figures of 117MB/s for reads with writes coming in at 118MB/s.

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